Sweet & (Whiskey) Sour
Today…
is the start of Black Breastfeeding Week. The theme this year is #ReviveRestoreReclaim.
is National Whiskey Sour Day. Huh. I couldn’t tell you how long it’s been since I’ve had a whiskey sour, might just have to look into that later.
RNC
Washington Post | Fact-checking the first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention
The Party of No Content
Annie Lowrey | The Atlantic
Republicans are remarkably quiet on how they would govern and what they seek to accomplish in the coming years.
CNN | How to watch the Republican National Convention
LGBTQ Nation | Republican National Convention will feature racists, anti-LGBTQ activists & con men
GLAAD airs ad touting Equality Act on Fox News throughout week of GOP Convention
John Riley | Metro Weekly
The LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD is airing an ad arguing in favor of the Equality Act on Fox News each morning during the week of the Republican National Convention.
The Advocate | GLAAD Ad Airing on Fox News Lays Out Trump's Anti-LGBTQ+ Stances
Daily Beast | Trump Is the ‘Most Pro-Gay POTUS Ever’? LGBTQ Orgs: Not So Fast
Forbes | LGBTQ Advocate Group Targets Republicans With ‘The Conversation’
LGBTQ Nation | This pro-LGBTQ ad will air on Fox News when they cover the Republican National Convention
Out | This New Ad Corrects Trump's Inevitable Lies on Failed LGBTQ+ Record
Abortion
Community-Based Care: Combatting COVID-19's Deadly Impact on Safe Abortion Access
Ashley Priore | Ms.
During times of crisis, women’s reproductive health needs are often disregarded, and the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing many already-stretched health systems to breaking point. At the same time, the need for sexual and reproductive health care—including safe abortion—does not just fall away.
COVID-19: An Opportunistic Attack on Reproductive Health
Alyssa Fisher | Women’s eNews
Women were already proving to be disproportionately affected by the coronavirus when 12 states deemed abortion a “non-essential” or “elective” procedure. Some governors and AGs argued that it would seize the PPE needed by medical professionals in hospitals. Others insisted that the procedure could be delayed.
Mississippi
Mississippi's only abortion clinic asks Supreme Court to decline 15-week ban case
Erica Hensley | Mississippi Today
Mississippi’s currently-blocked law that bans abortions after 15 weeks should not be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys said last week.
New Hampshire
Sununu’s veto restricts access to reproductive health
Ellen Joyce | Concord Monitor
This month, Sununu vetoed the Reproductive Health Parity Act, which would have granted insurance coverage for countless Granite Staters’ life-saving abortion care. Because of Sununu, insurance companies in our state can refuse to cover an abortion even if the procedure is medically necessary.
LGBTQ
Looking Back at Kellyanne Conway's Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric
Trudy Ring | The Advocate
As one of Donald Trump's chief apologists leaves the White House, it's worth remembering how homophobic she is.
Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Years of LGBTQ Hypocrisy End With the Splash of a Pool Boy
Tim Teeman | The Daily Beast
Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife’s alleged affair with ex-pool boy Giancarlo Granda reveals Falwell’s hypocritical moralizing about LGBTQ people for the vile sham it always was.
LGBTQ Nation | Jerry Falwell Jr blames his fall from grace on his wife
And some well-deserved schadenfreude from The Advocate, Instinct, LGBTQ Nation, New Civil Rights Movement
Trump administration releases draft erasing LGBTQ people from USAID's gender policy
John Riley | Metro Weekly
The Trump administration has released a new draft policy on gender and women’s empowerment for the USAID that eliminates any mention of LGBTQ people, particularly transgender women, as well as any mention of contraceptives.
Ms. Magazine | Take Action! Trump Administration Proposes Harmful Regression to USAID Gender Equality Policy
COVID-19 Creates More Back-to-School Uncertainty for Trans and Nonbinary Students
Jo Yurcaba | Rewire.News
Add possible infections, misgendering, and bullying to the concerns trans and nonbinary students may face while learning this fall.
Connecticut
High Court Ruling Protects Trans Athletes, School Districts Say
Peter Hayes | Bloomberg Law News
A suit seeking to bar transgender students from participating in girls’ track and field events should be dismissed because the requested relief would violate the constitution and federal civil rights law, a group of Connecticut school districts told the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
New York
New York dedicates state park to LGBTQ civil rights icon Marsha P. Johnson, marking a first
Karma Allen | ABC News
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Marsha P. Johnson, making it country's first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the state. Cuomo made the announcement on Monday, on what would have been the transgender civil rights icon's 75th birthday.
Pregnancy & Parenting
What Is Black Breastfeeding Week-And Why Is It More Important Than Ever?
Carrie Kerpen | Forbes
New moms face tons of challenges, from navigating life as a first-time parent, to screaming babies, to wondering if they’re doing it all right. It can feel really overwhelming to anyone. But for women of color, there’s a whole other level of stress that stems from systemic racism in our society—and more specifically, in our healthcare system.
Two Traumatic Births Changed My Experience of Motherhood
Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton | Glamour
Choosing to have kids means potentially risking your own life if you’re a Black woman in America. I know this too well.
More Black Mothers Die During Pregnancy And Childbirth Because Of Racism
Danyale Reed | Little Things
Carrying a child, giving birth, and recovering from labor are experiences that look and feel very different depending on the mother who is going through the process.
Study Finds That Black Babies Are Three Times More Likely To Die When Cared For By White Doctors
Stephanie Kaloi | Little Things
Researchers from George Mason University spent thirteen years analyzing 1.8 million hospital births in the state of Florida and have published the troubling results of their study: Black babies are three times more likely to die when they are cared for by white doctors.
'Hear Her' campaign aims to protect pregnant women from life-threatening conditions
Good Morning America
The CDC's new Hear Her campaign seeks to raise awareness of warning signs of pregnancy emergencies and encourage pregnant women to speak up to fight maternal mortality.
‘Having it All’ is a myth. That’s why we need universal family care.
Josephine F. Kalipeni | Washington Post
I cannot do it all. I’m done pretending that I can — and you should be done pretending, too.
Pandemic Parenting
Pandemic Parenting Has Turned Me Into a Bad Mom
Danielle Campoamor | Good Housekeeping
COVID-19 has exposed the impossible expectations all moms, and especially working moms, are told we must meet or exceed. And without access to systemic support that, let’s face it, was lacking prior to the onset of a global pandemic, moms like me are made to feel inferior. Lacking. Like failures. Like bad moms.
Oh, Danielle…
Little Things | Microschools And Homeschooling Pods Are Perfect For Lucky Parents, But Leave Some Kids Behind
Money | Everything Students Need to Be Successful at Distance Learning (hint: Money)
POPSUGAR | I'm Really Not Ready For Virtual School This Fall, but I'm Going to Do My Best
Omaha World-Herald | Parents of kids with special needs say virtual learning won't work for their children
Working Mother | Embracing Serendipity Is the Secret to Surviving Back-to-School This Year. Here's How
Reproductive Health & Justice
Private Equity Investing More and More in Women’s Health Care
Emily Shugerman | The Daily Beast
Private equity companies—big businesses that buy up, merge, and sell off smaller ones—have long been sinking their profit-seeking teeth into the medical market. But a new study finds a previously overlooked area in which the male-dominated industry is rapidly expanding: Women’s health care.
Attend a Private School? Your Birth Control Could Be at Risk.
Mansee Khurana | Rewire.News
A "reckoning" might be ahead now that the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to gut birth control coverage at religiously affiliated colleges.
🠲 The Biggest Threat to Herd Immunity Against COVID-19 May Be the Religious Freedom Restoration Act(s) and State Religious Exemptions
Marci A. Hamilton | Veredict
RFRA could be a major barrier to obtaining herd immunity through an effective vaccine. We know that it is already a potent weapon against public health. It was deployed by a for-profit arts and crafts store in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, and an elderly care religious order in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, to avoid providing cost-free contraception to female employees—despite the clear public health evidence that contraception increases women’s health, achievement, and longevity.
Work & Money
🠲 The Left’s Misogyny Problem
Jessica Valenti | GEN Magazine
All sexism is bad, but there’s nothing quite as frustrating as sexism from supposed progressives. Women have come to expect misogyny from the right — under this administration, it’s practically their calling card. But when it comes from the left, it’s a painful reminder of how foundational misogyny is in this country.
U.S. Lags Behind In Protecting Workers From Workplace Bullying
Patricia Barnes | Forbes
The International Labor Organization (ILO) last month ratified the first international treaty to address violence and harassment in the workplace, called the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (C190). The treaty, adopted a year ago, was ratified through its adoption by two ILO members states, Uruguay and Fiji. The U.S. is an ISO member that voted for the treaty but has not adopted it.
The end of the #Girlboss reign is a step forward for feminism
Claire Cheek | The Tempest
In order to truly dismantle the patriarchy, women ought to think of ways to deconstruct the corporations that oppress, instead of joining them.
Utah
Utah ranked worst state for women’s equality three years in a row
Becky Jacobs | Salt Lake Tribune
For the third year in a row, Utah has been named the worst state for women’s equality, and it continues to lag far behind the state ranked 49th — Idaho.
More, More, More
Who gets asylum in the U.S.? Trump and 40 years of inequities stand in the way
Lauryn Schroeder, Kate Morrissey | Los Angeles Times
For the world’s most vulnerable, protection in the United States has all but disappeared.
The Problem With NYC’s New Women’s Rights Monument
Erin Thompson | The Nation
As statues topple across the US, a new women’s rights monument in Central Park has sparked debate over whether statues are a redeemable form of remembrance.
The 19th
100 Years Later, the Racist Legacy and Violence of the 19th Amendment Persist
Kylie Cheung | The Mary Sue
The 19th Amendment may have marked a critical step forward for white women, but its legacy and foundations in selling out people of color and especially women of color can never be erased—especially when we continue to see this today.
Suffragists Knew Voting Was Only the First Step to Equality. The ERA Could Finish the Job.
Roxy Szal | Ms. Magazine
Suffragists were not a single-issue group—what they wanted was true equality for women, and they recognized women’s voting power was only the first step toward realizing this goal.
USA Today | A woman against the women’s vote: The promise that created a leading anti-suffragist